hypervisor

Storage

TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio
The big improvements are to software and hardware capabilities on the core Hitachi Content Platform and to the Hitachi Data Ingestor Platform.

Backup

Commvault aims to extend market reach with new VM Backup and Recovery trial software

May 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault aims to extend market reach with new VM Backup and Recovery trial software
The new version of the software designed for VM environments upgrades the interface, improves DR capability and makes it easier to migrate VM workloads to the cloud.

Cloud

Barracuda Liveboot 2.0 adds Hyper-V support, speeds up boot times, enhances UI

March 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda Liveboot 2.0 adds Hyper-V support, speeds up boot times, enhances UI
The faster reboot time applies in both VMware and Microsoft environments, and allows new machines to be spun up in a couple of minutes.

Cloud

Sureline Systems looks to Nutanix partnership for growth

June 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sureline Systems looks to Nutanix partnership for growth
The cloud migration and DR vendor is leveraging its partnership with Nutanix and support for Nutanix’s AHV supervisor to add new customers, including ones in Canada.

Channel Programs

Nutanix channel chief takes stock of changes in first year on job

June 21, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix channel chief takes stock of changes in first year on job
Chris Morgan assessed his success in executing on his priorities in this first year on the job, and considers the channel impact of Nutanix’s emphasis in 2016 of the big picture beyond simply saving money through hyper-converged solutions.

Servers

Nutanix, Citrix partner on scalable enterprise VDI solution for around $500 (really)

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Citrix partner on scalable enterprise VDI solution for around $500 (really)
Nutanix’s president acknowledged that the industry’s previous announced attempts at a low-cost VDI solution have been basically junk, which have left customers suspicious of such claims. Nutanix InstantON VDI for Citrix, on the other hand, is an enterprise-capable turnkey solution, which really will come in in the $500 price range, including the endpoint.

Data Centre

Nutanix looks to move beyond hyperconverged with new software release

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix looks to move beyond hyperconverged with new software release
Nutanix’s 4.6 software release enables key features to its platform announced last summer, as part of their longer-run strategy to be an Amazon-like infrastructure for the enterprise cloud.

Data Centre

Stratoscale targets test-dev market with launch of software-defined architecture

December 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Stratoscale targets test-dev market with launch of software-defined architecture
The hyperconverged startup emphasizes the end product, a highly scalable out-of-the-box private cloud initially focused on development and testing environments, rather than the hyperconverged label itself, which they think has been somewhat overused.

Data Centre

Nutanix aggressively claiming mantle of ‘only true hyperconverged player’

September 10, 2015 Mark Cox 1
At a customer event in Toronto Wednesday, Nutanix presented the audience with a full-throated positioning of themselves as well ahead of their competition, and also gave an update on their progress in Canada

Data Centre

Virtual Instruments launches updated version of its IPM platform

August 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Virtual Instruments launches updated version of its IPM platform
Version 4.3 expands hypervisor support and adds a VM Coordinator for workload management analytics and improved ability to classify workloads in a histogram.